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George Herzog was born in 1901 in Budapest, Hungary. He became an American ethnomusicologist, teaching that cultural context should be included in the study of music. Herzog studied West African music during an anthropolgy expedition to Liberia from 1931-1932. He died in 1983.

Gerald hasuman, born in 1945 in Baltimore, Maryland, is a storyteller, teacher, editor. He has authored retellings of many Native American stories and other traditional ethnic stories as well as books on animal mythology. Hausman and his wife founded a school for creative writing in Jamaica.

Born in 1921 in New York City, Richard Wilbur won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1957 for Things of This World: Poems and his second in 1989 for New and Collected Poems. He is known primarily as a writer of poetry; he has also written a number of critical essays, translations of French poetry and his critiques of Edgar Allan Poe. In 1987, Wilbur became the second poet laureate of the United States. 

Born in 1932 in Jefferson City, Missouri, Richard kennedy has worked a number of jobs, including archivist, cab driver, deckhand, fireman, and teacher. he has earned critical acclaim for his distinct contribution to American chldren's literature. Two of his most notable works are Amy's Eyes, a five hundred-page juvenile novel, and Richard Kennedy: Collected Stories. 

Daughter of the famous author Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane was born in 1887 in De Smet, South Dakota. Lane began writing before her mother and for a while was better known. She wrote nonfiction books--including The Peaks of Shala, an account of her travels to Albania--ghostwrote fiction, and assisted her mother with teh Little House series. Lane died in 1968.

Born in 1914 in Helsinki, Finland, Tove Jansson, the daughter of a sculptor and a designer, studied painting in Finland, Sweden, and France. In addition to her success as an artist, jansson wrote and illustrated many children's books as well as comic strips, plays, and books for adults. Known worldwide as the creator of the Moomin books, a series that echoes Scandinavian folklore, Jansson was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1966. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages. She died in 2001.

Born in 1962 in George, Kim L. Siegelson based "In the Time of the Drums" on accounts of an incident that was supposed to have taken place on St. Simons Island, Goerge. For this story, Siegelson received the American Library Assocation Coretta Scott King Award as well as several other awards. Her works include The Terrible, Wonderful Tellin' at Hog Hammock, and Trembling Earth.

Born in Tlaquepaque, Mexico, in 1943, Francisco Jiménez has won many awards for The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child from which "Learning the Game" appears.  Jiménez was choosen as the 2002 U.S. Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Supoprt of Education (CASE) and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching for his work as a professor and program director at Santa Clara University.

Randall Jarrell was born in 1914 in Nashville, Tennessee. He had a reputation for being an exacting literary critic and an intense lover of literature. He was also admired as a poet and won the National Book Award in 1961 for The Woman at the Washington Zoo, one of his six books of poetry. In addition to his poetry and criticism, Jarrell wrote a novel and children's books, edited anthologies, and translated a number of works, including stories by the Grimm brothers. He died in 1965.